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Book Synopsis In Search of Divinity by : Abhijit Naskar
Download or read book In Search of Divinity written by Abhijit Naskar and published by Neuro Cookies. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Theoretical Religion is easy. Even a chimpanzee can get it. What the world needs is Practical Scientific Religion.” “Once upon a time, there was a frog that lived in a well. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. One day another frog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well. "Where are you from?" "I am from the sea." "The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?" and it took a leap from one side of the well to the other. "My friend," said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with your little well?" Then the frog took another leap and asked, "Is your sea so big?" "What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!" "Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than my well; there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn him out." This has been the difficulty with religious beliefs all through ages." Is it possible for the civilized human society to see beyond those tiny circles of belief systems? In Search of Divinity is a heart-warming journey towards the Kingdom of Conscience, beyond the never-ending conflicts among orthodox religious belief systems. Celebrated Neuroscientist and International Best-selling Author Abhijit Naskar in his surreal and spell-binding way reveals the path towards the liberation of the mind. He shows us the glimpse of a world, where religious faith doesn't become an impediment in the path of progress of thinking humanity. Naskar's painstaking efforts to build that world represent the quest of billions of peace-loving human beings. In Search of Divinity is the Handbook of Discovering the Kingdom of Absolute Oneness.
Book Synopsis Quest for Divinity by : Mohamed A. Mahmoud
Download or read book Quest for Divinity written by Mohamed A. Mahmoud and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly influential Sudanese reformist thinker, Mahmud Muhammad Taha is regarded as a product of a dual legacy rooted in mystical Islam on the one hand and in the tradition of modernity on the other. Publicly executed in 1985 folowing his conviction of apostasy, Taha offered distinctly original interpretations of the Qur’an and a radical theory of Islamic prayer. In Quest for Divinity, Mohamed Mahmoud presents an in-depth and balanced treatment of Taha’s controversial yet significant thought. The author’s ability to provide access to relevant literature in both Arabic and English offers readers a rare view of the considerable nuance in Taha’s thought. With rich detail Mahmoud explores Taha’s theories of human freedom and his social message, referred to as "the second message of Islam" with its emphasis on political, economic, and social equality. Taha’s embrace of modernity is further assessed relative to his position on science, law, and art-areas that have always attracted Muslim modernists. Quest for Divinity will attract attention to Taha’s compelling but little-known intellectual contribution as a seminal modern reformer of Islam. Such recognition is long overdue and will enrich the current debates on Islam and modernity.
Book Synopsis The Search for God at Harvard by : Ari L. Goldman
Download or read book The Search for God at Harvard written by Ari L. Goldman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1992-04-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1985 Ari L. Goldman took a year’s leave from his job as a religion reporter for The New York Times and enrolled in the Harvard Divinity School. What began as a project to deepen his knowledge of the world’s sacred beliefs turned out to be an extraordinary journey of spiritual illumination, one in which Goldman reexamined his own faith as an Orthodox Jew and opened his mind to the great religions of the world. In his year at Harvard, Goldman found to his surprise that his fellow students were not straitlaced, somber clerics, but a diverse, vibrant, and sometimes embattled group from every major religion, united by their deep spiritual commitment. Even more surprising was the spiritual climate of the Divinity School itself: Far from being an ivory tower or a bastion of old-time Christian piety, the school was a forum for passionate debate on the relationships between religion and politics, social mores and sexuality. Written with warmth, humor, and penetrating clarity, The Search for God at Harvard is a book for anyone who has wrestled with the question of what it means to take religion seriously today. Praise for The Search for God at Harvard: “Personal yet informative, warm and humorous, beautifully written. In a word, superb.” –Elie Wiesel “Is it possible to honor the truth of one’s own religion while being genuinely open to others? In The Search for God at Harvard, Ari Goldman tells his story in so fine a manner that he helps us to understand why the answer must be yes.” –The New York Times Book Review “Excellent: intelligent, informative, infused with humor.” –Cleveland Plain Dealer “Enriching . . . well-written, absorbing.” –The Boston Globe “A valuable and unique contribution.” –The Washington Post Book World
Book Synopsis In Search of Small Gods by : Jim Harrison
Download or read book In Search of Small Gods written by Jim Harrison and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrison, one of America's most celebrated writers, is considered "a renegade genius" for his poetry.
Book Synopsis You Are Divine by : Dawn Reno Langley
Download or read book You Are Divine written by Dawn Reno Langley and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embrace Your Feminine Strength Every woman holds the divine feminine within her, but sometimes it can be hard to find inside ourselves. Dawn Reno Langley delivers the advice that goddesses offer us, as well as how we can incorporate those lessons into our daily lives. With powerful interviews and journaling prompts, Langley invites you to find your inner strength, let go of the expectations of society, and embrace your own divinity. You Are Divine is a celebration of all women, sharing inspiring stories of divine female archetypes from different cultures across the globe. It features powerful examples of mythological, historical, and contemporary women who represent the best qualities in all of us. With this book, you can discover your unique way of taking back power, calling for justice, connecting with your creativity, exploring ecofeminism, and so much more.
Book Synopsis 8 Spiritual Heroes by : Brennan Hill
Download or read book 8 Spiritual Heroes written by Brennan Hill and published by Franciscan Media. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is evident after exploring these heroes' lives and writings that God remains a Mystery—a reality beyond images, descriptions, dogmas and creeds."—From the Epilogue How does a person imagine God? How does that image change as the person matures spiritually and undergoes a significant religious experience? What influences—political, social, gender, faith tradition—shape and change a person's view of God? In this compelling and inspiring book of biographical theology, Brennan Hill uses stories and historical and theological sources to tell us how eight modern religious heroes see God. Hill's religious heroes are diverse: a Hindu (Mahatma Gandhi), a Jewess who converted to Christianity (Edith Stein), a black Baptist minister (Martin Luther King, Jr.), a Catholic laywoman (Dorothy Day), a Salvadoran archbishop (Archbishop Oscar Romero), two Jesuit priests (Pierre Tielhard de Chardin and Daniel Berrigan) and a nun (Mother Teresa of Calcutta). Hill writes: "Many of my religious heroes lived out their faith in an outstanding manner. For all of these religious heroes God was often close at hand, deeply felt in the events of their lives, glimpsed in the people they met, pursuing them in their minds and hearts. God, as it were, came with many intriguing faces: as a God of truth, of the homeless and of the mountain. God came in the cosmos, as one beckoning to prophecy and as a fellow sufferer sharing the cross. Divinity appeared as the power of peace and in the poverty of the abandoned. Each one of us might now ask: What face has my God shown to me?"
Book Synopsis The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God by : Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson
Download or read book The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God written by Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God is still considered by many scholars to be the finest work on the Arian Controversy. Examining scholarly works on the Controversy and many original texts, Professor Hanson, provides a clear understanding of how the traditional and historic doctrine of God as the Holy Trinity reached its most mature and enduring form. The author is not primarily concerned to defend the orthodox position itself, but rather to discover and examine the formation of that orthodoxy. The history of the events - the Councils, the interventions of the Emperor, the rivalries of sees, the behaviour of bishops, the varying fortunes of the different schools of thought and their leaders - is interwoven with the progression of thought and doctrine during the sixty years of the Controversy. Professor Hanson sees the problem of the reconciliation of two concepts which were both part of the very fabric of Christianity - monotheism and the worship of Jesus Christ as divine.
Book Synopsis Essence of Divinity by : Elaine W. Gries
Download or read book Essence of Divinity written by Elaine W. Gries and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANNOTATION: Elaine first met Sathya Sai Baba in 1973 and has watched his mission of love spread around the world in the past 30 years. The platform on which his astounding activities are based is fivefold: truth, right action, peace, love, and nonviolence. "Essence of Divinity" chronicles Elaine's search for a true spiritual teacher and her experiences with Sai Baba. The book also describes Sai Baba's majorservice projects: his free educational system, from elementary school to the university; his program on education in human values; his free health-care programs, which include hospitals that perform the latest heart surgeries; and his project to bring pure water to the people of the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh and elsewhere. Elaine compellingly weaves together quotes from 30 years of Sai Baba's discourses on several important issues: health care, science and spirituality,the environment, the role of women, and vedanta.
Download or read book How We Believe written by Michael Shermer and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics Recent polls report that 96 percent of Americans believe in God, and 73 percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of science, technology, and secular education, are people turning to religion in greater numbers than ever before? Why do people believe in God at all? These provocative questions lie at the heart of How We Believe , an illuminating study of God, faith, and religion. Bestselling author Michael Shermer offers fresh and often startling insights into age-old questions, including how and why humans put their faith in a higher power, even in the face of scientific skepticism. Shermer has updated the book to explore the latest research and theories of psychiatrists, neuroscientists, epidemiologists, and philosophers, as well as the role of faith in our increasingly diverse modern world. Whether believers or nonbelievers, we are all driven by the need to understand the universe and our place in it. How We Believe is a brilliant scientific tour of this ancient and mysterious desire.
Book Synopsis Fumbling Toward Divinity by : Craig Hickman
Download or read book Fumbling Toward Divinity written by Craig Hickman and published by Annabessacook Farm. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Divinity and Maximal Greatness by : Daniel J. Hill
Download or read book Divinity and Maximal Greatness written by Daniel J. Hill and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Divinity and Maximal Greatness stands in the notable tradition of perfect-being theology. The book thoughtfully explicates the concept of divinity in terms of the notion of maximal greatness - a being is divine if and only if he is maximally great."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis In Search of Divinity by : Abhijit Naskar
Download or read book In Search of Divinity written by Abhijit Naskar and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Theoretical Religion is easy. Even a chimpanzee can get it. What the world needs is Practical Scientific Religion." "Once upon a time, there was a frog that lived in a well. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. One day another frog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well. "Where are you from?" "I am from the sea." "The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?" and it took a leap from one side of the well to the other. "My friend," said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with your little well?" Then the frog took another leap and asked, "Is your sea so big?" "What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!" "Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than my well; there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn him out." This has been the difficulty with religious beliefs all through ages." Is it possible for the civilized human society to see beyond those tiny circles of belief systems? In Search of Divinity is a heart-warming journey towards the Kingdom of Conscience, beyond the never-ending conflicts among orthodox religious belief systems. Celebrated Neuroscientist and International Best-selling Author Abhijit Naskar in his surreal and spell-binding way reveals the path towards the liberation of the mind. He shows us the glimpse of a world, where religious faith doesn't become an impediment in the path of progress of thinking humanity. Naskar's painstaking efforts to build that world represent the quest of billions of peace-loving human beings. In Search of Divinity is the Handbook of Discovering the Kingdom of Absolute Oneness.
Book Synopsis In Search of the True Light by : Mike Shreve
Download or read book In Search of the True Light written by Mike Shreve and published by . This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth comparison of over 20 religions. Before his conversion to Christianity, author Mike Shreve was a teacher of yoga at four universities. Drawing from his past experience and over 35 years of research, he carefully analyzes the differences between the Far Eastern and Biblical world views. An excellent book for both Christians and non-Christian seekers.
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Book Synopsis The Quest for God in the Work of Borges by : Annette U. Flynn
Download or read book The Quest for God in the Work of Borges written by Annette U. Flynn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the quest for God, though largely unheeded by the critical canon, was a major and enduring preoccupation for Borges. This is shown through careful analysis both of his essays, with their emphasis on his philosophical-theological explorations, and of the narrative articulations which are his stories. It is in the poetry of his middle and closing years, however, that Borges' search is most manifest, as it is no longer obscured. Spanning different periods of his life, and different literary genres, Borges' work attests to a maturing and evolving quest. The book reveals Borges' engagement as an active and evolving process and its chronological structure allows the reader to trace his thought over time. Flynn shows that the spiritual component in Borges' writing drives key texts from the 1920s to the 1980s. Offering an interpretation that unlocks a fuller significance of his work, she shows how Borges' reflections on time and identity are symptomatic of a deeper, spiritual searching which can only be answered by a Divine Absolute.
Book Synopsis Searching for the Caravan by : Germaine Avila
Download or read book Searching for the Caravan written by Germaine Avila and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for the Caravan is a true story that begins in a wholesome, pastoral farming community in the Midwest, characterized by Christian principles. Eventually, Germaine's curiosity and determination led her on a journey through Europe as a single professional woman, and Asia and Southeast Asia with her husband and children. While spending seventeen years overseas-France, Switzerland, Pakistan, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Thailand and Indonesia-Germaine encountered a multitude of cultures, religions and otherworldly phenomena that would ultimately clarify her own truth. Germaine's experiences-considered controversial and taboo-provoked a journey of another sort where her belief in all things she held sacred was called into question. Desperate to return to the grace she had forsaken in her youth and to understand the mechanics-the science-behind inexplicable events, she turned to God and ancient metaphysical principles (Feng Shui, BaZi, I-Ching) to analyze the extraordinary and regain control of her life. Germaine's fascinating and courageous story started out as a life review using metaphysical principles as a tool to explain the how and why of her existence, but it ended up as an exploration of the Divine as sifted through Love and Balance. Searching for the Caravan is an enlightening, real life thriller that challenges the spiritual seeker and intellectually curious. Germaine invites you to suspend your sense of the every day normal to suppose the every day not so normal. Her story is a unique odyssey not to be missed.
Book Synopsis Cultural and Theological Reflections on the Japanese Quest for Divinity by : John J. Keane
Download or read book Cultural and Theological Reflections on the Japanese Quest for Divinity written by John J. Keane and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cultural and Theological Reflections on the Japanese Quest for Divinity, John J. Keane offers an explanation of Japanese divinity (kami 神) using sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and history. He presents an overview of how the Japanese have sought to love and serve their kami - a quest that rivals the interest that the West gives to God. The principles of interreligious dialogue are applied to the meaning of kami and a plea is made for a dialogue that respectfully accepts differences between the cultures and the theologies of Eastern and Western thought. Important cultural themes are discussed as a part of this quest, such as the emperors of Japan and the Japanese Tea Ceremony. The work also challenges the understanding of kami as highlighted by Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Endo Shusaku.
